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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most PTAs in diverse schools have a demographic problem - just because middle class white families tend to have more time and energy to attend meetings at night, where there may or may not be snacks, and where the discussion is in English.

HOWEVER - what's happening at RT seems to go beyond these challenges.  It sounds like the immersion parents have basically taken over the PTA and use it to advocate for the needs of their own kids at the expense of the rest of the student population.

I've also heard that the administration at that school has been completely beaten down by the white parents in the immersion program.  [/quote]

I think in a school with sharp income inequality between classrooms, it's only fair that parents not be allowed to contribute money specifically to their child's class.  It should all go into the same pot and be divided fairly.  [/quote]

It isn't even just the money, it's the use of PTA time, energy, and political capital to advance the interests of a tiny slice of kids at the school.  My kids aren't at RT, but are at another school with a big range of SES, and the principal is basically having none of that white nonsense.  This can be frustrating for middle class white parents at the school, who complain about it pretty much incessantly, but the end result is that ALL the kids in the school get to share resources and the voices of non-white, non-affluent, parents get heard.  [/quote]

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